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End of Year Show 2025

News Release
May 6, 2025

From May 17 until May 23, the studios and spaces throughout Columbia GSAPP’s Avery Hall will be activated by the End of Year Show. It will showcase GSAPP’s commitment to critically expand the spectrum of the possible through the work of the School’s researchers, faculty, and students, with over 1,000 student works. The exhibition will expand into an online platform. Together, this is a momentous collaborative effort to mobilize the disciplines of the built environment as crucial sites where the conflicts of the present can be both studied and intervened.

The End of Year Show includes work from Columbia GSAPP’s degree programs in Advanced Architectural Design; Architecture; Computational Design Practices; Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices; Historic Preservation; Real Estate Development; Urban Design; and Urban Planning. The work presented addresses questions of climate and ecological crisis, urban and environmental inequalities, the accountability of infrastructures and technologies, bodied activisms, and geopolitical conflict. To name a few, this includes projects where a variety of mental health conditions are acknowledged and supported; projects that contribute to democratizing access to water, and the long term management of waste; and projects confronting the effects of AI on real estate markets in nonurban areas. Schoolwide, there is a commitment to rethink materiality through an intersectional approach to decarbonization, where the technical, the aesthetic, and the political are seen as interrelated. It also includes the recently developed pedagogical format of the GSAPP Design Clinics: transdisciplinary platforms participated by faculty and students, and communities across the world who are facing challenges that can be intervened through the collaboration of the disciplines of the built environment with other departments across the Columbia University campus. For example, the Data Mourning Clinic, led by Marina Otero with Daniel Miller, addressed the imminent physical disappearance of the island nation of Tuvalu due to rising sea levels and the frameworks for its possible futures as a dispersed community. The Design Clinics form part of a broader set of pedagogical transformations at GSAPP, intended to acknowledge and mobilize the disciplines of the built environment as relevant and committed contributors to the presents and futures of the planet.

The exhibition also features a special presentation of selected work in the context of the questions raised during the ACTIONING SUMMITS held throughout the past academic year. Part of GSAPP’s Public Programming, these summits are an unprecedented undertaking aimed to identify possible ways to address methodological questions specific to the current times, such as how to accelerate action in dealing with urgent crises like housing, how to scale up climate action, what changes are needed in design practices to engage in reparation, or how to articulate scientific, spiritual, and political ontologies. THE ACTIONING SUMMITS have brought together the GSAPP community with academics, researchers, activists, and designers from around the world, including Anna Tsing, Ada Colau, Kate Crawford, Aimi Hamraie, Marjetica Potrč, Paulo Tavares, Laura Tripaldi, Michael Marder, James Bridle, Albena Yaneva, Supawut Boonmahathanakorn, Allyson Martinez, David Gissen, and others.

Visit the End of Year Show

Opening on the occasion of GSAPP’s 2025 Graduation on May 17, the exhibition remains on view to the public through May 23. The online exhibition launches on May 17 at 3pm ET. The Exhibition Prospecting Ocean by Armin Linke, currently on view in the Arthur Ross Architecture in Buell Hall, will have extended opening hours during the End of Year Show.

The online exhibition can be visited here (launching May 17). The opening of the GSAPP End of the Year Show will include a live performance by the New York band Midnight Magic.

Advance registration is required for non-GSAPP affiliates to attend the May 17 opening or to view the exhibition by appointment. Please email exhibitions@arch.columbia.edu to register.

Media contact
Ilana Curtis, Columbia GSAPP
communications@arch.columbia.edu